Re: [PATCH 07/10] KVM: nVMX: Cast exit_reason to u16 to check for nested EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Date: Fri Mar 13 2020 - 09:57:02 EST


Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Explicitly check only the basic exit reason when emulating an external
> interrupt VM-Exit in nested_vmx_vmexit(). Checking the full exit reason
> doesn't currently cause problems, but only because the only exit reason
> modifier support by KVM is FAILED_VMENTRY, which is mutually exclusive
> with EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT. Future modifiers, e.g. ENCLAVE_MODE, will
> coexist with EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> index 8fbbe2152ab7..86b12a2918c5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> @@ -4337,7 +4337,7 @@ void nested_vmx_vmexit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 exit_reason,
> vcpu->arch.mp_state = KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE;
>
> if (likely(!vmx->fail)) {
> - if (exit_reason == EXIT_REASON_EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT &&
> + if ((u16)exit_reason == EXIT_REASON_EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT &&
> nested_exit_intr_ack_set(vcpu)) {
> int irq = kvm_cpu_get_interrupt(vcpu);
> WARN_ON(irq < 0);

Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Vitaly